very interesting interview with chris hedges, (if it bores you at the start skip to 6:57 onwards).
really fantastic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv_quWatFkY
he says -
empires destroy themselves from the inside out - and this is the fate of the US (obvious truth but few dare articulate it, especially on a mainstream media outlet!). he calls out both the dems and repubs for presiding over a corporate rape of the US. and goes on to say the left is bankrupt, because it has allied itself with corporate forces, so a backlash will come from the right. this is the same point chomsky has been making sine obama got elected, about how a dumbass populist right wing movement is at risk of mounting a coup. and of course, while these people may be generally absolute idiots they are rightly angry at their increasing poverty.
russia today is an example of a mainstream outlet that provides the kind of commentary on US politics that a channel operating inside the US never could. of course when it comes to russia it just tows the party line (in russia everybody knows journalists get murdered all the time). fantastic stuff. of course the russian authorities couldnt give a fuck about clamping down on reporting that the US establishment would go nuts over, and so they can get away with it.